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Tomcat doesn't sync with the mysql database

I'm currently working on a college project, and I'm creating a very simple e-commerce style website.
I'm using JDBC driver manager and connection pool for the connection to the db, while using Tomcat 9.0 as the container.
The problem is: when I modify some product through the website (let's say the amount available for example), the website doesn't always reflect the changes, while I can always see the data correctly in MySql Workbench.
It actually works one time out of two on the same query:
I run the query for the first time after the changes -> it shows the old value
I run the query for the second time after the changes -> it shows the new value
I run the query for the third time after the changes -> it shows the old value
And so on.
I've already tried to set caching off (from the query, using the SQL_NO_CACHE), but it didn't seem to solve the problem, I've tried to use Datasource instead, but it causes other problems that most likely I won't have the time to solve.
This is the connection pool file, which I think might be problem, I'm not that sure tho:
public class DriverManagerConnectionPool {
private static List<Connection> freeDbConnections;
static {
freeDbConnections = new LinkedList<Connection>();
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("DB driver not found:"+ e.getMessage());
}
}
private static synchronized Connection createDBConnection() throws SQLException {
Connection newConnection = null;
String ip = "localhost";
String port = "3306";
String db = "storage";
String username = "root";
String password = "1234";
newConnection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://"+ ip+":"+ port+"/"+db+"?useUnicode=true&useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&serverTimezone=UTC", username, password);
newConnection.setAutoCommit(false);
return newConnection;
}
public static synchronized Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
Connection connection;
if (!freeDbConnections.isEmpty()) {
connection = (Connection) freeDbConnections.get(0);
freeDbConnections.remove(0);
try {
if (connection.isClosed())
connection = getConnection();
} catch (SQLException e) {
connection.close();
connection = getConnection();
}
} else {
connection = createDBConnection();
}
return connection;
}
public static synchronized void releaseConnection(Connection connection) throws SQLException {
if(connection != null) freeDbConnections.add(connection);
}
}
I really hope you can help me, I haven't found any solution online!

I guess it is because of auto-commit is disabled. Please try using #Transactional or set auto-commit to true. You can also try to use db.commit after each statement.

As per your connection pool implementation, all connection in your pool seems to be auto committed false.
Please check you have properly committed the connection after executing the query or not.
So it might be the case that, when executing the query after changes with same connection it reflects those changes, done earlier and on other connections, old values are might get returned.

Connection Closed even when the connection is closed below the code

I have a basic code snippet below but it is not working.What may be the problem with it.
public List<String> getStores() throws SQLException{
List<String> store_id=new ArrayList<>();
String query="select distinct(store_id) from stores";
Connection con=ConnectDatabase.getDb2ConObj();
Statement stmt=con.createStatement();
java.sql.ResultSet rsResultSet=stmt.executeQuery(query);
while(rsResultSet.next()){
store_id.add(rsResultSet.getString(1));
}
con.close();
return store_id;
}
It is throwing the below exception
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: No operations allowed after connection closed.
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:888)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.checkClosed(Connection.java:1931)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createStatement(Connection.java:3087)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createStatement(Connection.java:3069)
at com.dao.StoreDao.getStores(StoreDao.java:52)
at org.apache.jsp.adminViewAllStore_jsp._jspService(adminViewAllStore_jsp.java:119)
The code for ConnectDatabse is
public class ConnectDatabase {
static Connection con=null;
static String connectionString="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ayurveda";
static String username="root";
static String password="";
public static Connection getDb2ConObj(){
if(con==null){
try{
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
con=DriverManager.getConnection(connectionString,username,password);
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException | SQLException e)
{
System.out.println("Connect initialized with error"+e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return con;
}
I cannot understand the reason for the same.What may be the problem.Since I am closing the connection after I am done with it.

It worked after I enclosed it in a try catch finally block.Changed the code as given below
public List<String> getStores() throws SQLException{
List<String> store_id=new ArrayList<>();
Connection con=ConnectDatabase.getDb2ConObj();
try{
String query="select distinct(store_id) from stores";
Statement stmt=con.createStatement();
java.sql.ResultSet rsResultSet=stmt.executeQuery(query);
while(rsResultSet.next()){
store_id.add(rsResultSet.getString(1));
}
}catch(Exception e){
}finally{
con.close();
}
return store_id;
}
Thanks.

You can use this type of code...for solving your problem
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
{
String u=t1.getText();
String p=t2.getText();
if(ae.getSource()==b1)
{
try{
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:newdsn");
String stp="SELECT * FROM reg";
Statement sa=con.createStatement();
rs=sa.executeQuery(stp);
while(rs.next())
{
String du=rs.getString(2);
String dp=rs.getString(3);
if(du.equals(u)&&dp.equals(p))
{
a=0;
break;
}else{ a=1;}
}
if(a==0){
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,"LOGIN PAGE","Login is successful",1);
}
if(a==1){
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,"LOGIN PAGE","Login is not successful",1);
}}
catch(Exception e){}
}}
if even the it is throwing exception then you check the system 32 bit or 64 bit..you should try if 64bit then please make your dsn in 32 bit and anduse ms access 2002-2003 version
then you get tour solution .....thank u

Use Java 7 -The try-with-resources Statement
According to the oracle documentation, you can combine a try-with-resources block with a regular try block
The typical Java application manipulates several types of resources such as files, streams, sockets, and database connections. Such resources must be handled with great care, because they acquire system resources for their operations. Thus, you need to ensure that they get freed even in case of errors.
Indeed, incorrect resource management is a common source of failures in production applications, with the usual pitfalls being database connections and file descriptors remaining opened after an exception has occurred somewhere else in the code. This leads to application servers being frequently restarted when resource exhaustion occurs, because operating systems and server applications generally have an upper-bound limit for resources.
sample code:
try(Connection con = getConnection()) {
...
}
Read more Java 7 Automatic Resource Management JDBC
Close Statement and ResultSet as well.
Don't load driver class every time when connection is needed. Just load it once in static initialization block.
static {
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
I suggest you to use JNDI and DataSource to keep username and password outside the Java code to make it more manageable. Keep the database configuration in a separate xml/properties file instead of hard-coding in Java file.
See Java Tutorial on Connecting with DataSource Objects
I have already posted a nice ConnectionUtil class to manage all the connections in a single class for whole application.

Singleton in JSP, how to properly tidy up on close?

I am just getting started with jsp and my question is this - when I have a singleton class, how do I tidy up after it?
In particular:
public class DBConnection {
private static Connection connection = null;
private static Statement statement = null;
public static ResultSet executeQuery(String query){
if (connection == null) { /*initConnection*/ }
if (statement == null) { /*initStatement*/ }
// do some stuff
}
}
Now, I use this class in several pages to get results from jdbc. However, I need to eventually call statement.close(); and connection.close(); - when should I call those?
I am using singleton, because it felt wrong to call for connection to a database over and over whenever I needed to make a query.

The Connection must be closed always, and after you have executed all your database statements for the desired operations. Two examples:
Case 1: You must show a list of products to user filtered by criteria from database. Solution: get a connection, retrieve a list of products using the filter criteria, close the connection.
Case 2: The client selects some of these products and updates the minimum stock to get an alert and restock them. Solution: get a connection, update all the products, close the connection.
Based on these cases, we can learn lot of things:
You can execute more than a single statement while having/maintaining a single connection open.
The connection should live only in the block where it is used. It should not live before or after that.
Both cases can happen at the same time since they are in a multi threaded environment. So, a single database connection must not be available to be used by two threads at the same time, in order to avoid result problems. For example, user A searches the products that are in category Foo and user B searches the products that are in category Bar, you don't want to show the products in category Bar to user A.
From last sentence, each database operation ((or group of similar operations like Case 2) should be handled in an atomic operation. To assure this, the connection must not be stored in a singleton object, instead it must be live only in the method being used.
In consequence:
Do not declare the Connection nor the Statement nor the ResultSet nor other JDBC resource as static. It will simply fail. Instead, declare only the Connection as field of your DBConnection class. Let each method decide to handle each Statement (or PreparedStatement) and ResultSet and specific JDBC resources.
Since you must close the connection after its usage, then add two more methods: void open() and void close(). These methods will handle the database connection retrieval and closing that connection.
Additional, since the DBConnection looks like a wrapper class for Connection class and database connection operations, I would recommend to have at least three more methods: void setAutoCommit(boolean autoCommit), void commit() and void rollback(). These methods will be plain wrappers for Connection#setAutoCommit Connection#close and Connection#rollback respectively.
Then you can use the class in this way:
public List<Product> getProducts(String categoryName) {
String sql = "SELECT id, name FROM Product WHERE categoryName = ?";
List<Product> productList = new ArrayList<Product>();
DBConnection dbConnection = new DBConnection();
try {
dbConnection.open();
ResultSet resultSet = dbConnection.executeSelect(sql, categoryName); //execute select and apply parameters
//fill productList...
} catch (Exception e) {
//always handle your exceptions
...
} finally {
//don't forget to also close other resources here like ResultSet...
//always close the connection
dbConnection.close();
}
}
Note that in this example the PreparedStatement is not in the getProducts method, it will be a local variable of the executeSelect method.
Additional notes:
When working in an application server, you should not open connections naively e.g. using Class.forName("..."), instead use a database connection pool. You can roll on some database connection pooling libraries like C3P0 as explained here: How to establish a connection pool in JDBC?. Or configure one in your application server, as I explain here: Is it a good idea to put jdbc connection code in servlet class?
If this is for learning purposes, then roll on your own classes to handle the communication with your database. In real world applications, this is not recommended (doesn't mean you should not do it). Instead, use a database connectivity framework like ORMs e.g. JPA (Java official ORM framework) or Hibernate; there are no ORM frameworks that handles database communication like Spring JDBC and MyBatis. The choice is yours.
More info:
Should a database connection stay open all the time or only be opened when needed?
How do servlets work? Instantiation, sessions, shared variables and multithreading. Not directly related to your question, but it will help you understand why to not maintain state in resources that are used in multithreaded environments.

Define connection resource in mywebapp/META-INF/context.xml file
<Resource name="jdbc/mydb" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="10" maxIdle="2" maxWait="20000"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
username="myuser" password="mypwd"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8"
validationQuery="SELECT 1" />
Create DB.java helper class to minimize code in other parts of app
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
public class DB {
public static Connection createConnection() throws SQLException {
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/mydb");
return ds.getConnection();
} catch (SQLException ex) {
throw ex;
} catch (Exception ex) {
SQLException sqex = new SQLException(ex.getMessage());
sqex.initCause(ex);
throw sqex;
}
}
public static void close(ResultSet rs, Statement stmt, Connection conn) {
if (rs != null) try { rs.close(); } catch (Exception e) { }
if (stmt != null) try { stmt.close(); } catch (Exception e) { }
if (conn != null) try { conn.close(); } catch (Exception e) { }
}
public static void close(ResultSet rs, boolean closeStmtAndConn) {
if (rs==null) return;
try {
Statement stmt = rs.getStatement();
close(rs, stmt, stmt!=null ? stmt.getConnection() : null);
} catch (Exception ex) { }
}
}
And somewhere in your app DAO code use DB helper.
public List<MyBean> getBeans() throws SQLException {
List<MyBean> list = new ArrayList<MyBean>();
ResultSet rs=null;
try {
Connection con = DB.createConnection();
String sql = "Select * from beantable where typeid=?";
PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement(sql, Statement.NO_GENERATED_KEYS);
stmt.setInt(1, 101);
rs = stmt.executeQuery();
while(rs.next()
list.add( createBean(rs) );
} finally {
DB.close(rs, true); // or DB.close(rs, stmt, conn);
}
return list;
}
private MyBean createBean(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {
MyBean bean = new MyBean();
bean.setId( rs.getLong("id") );
bean.setName( rs.getString("name" );
bean.setTypeId( rs.getInt("typeid") );
return bean;
}

I would add two methods to the class:
public static void open() throws SomeException;
public static void close() throws SomeException;
then your calling code looks something like this{
try {
DBConnection.open();
... code to use the connection one or more times ...
} finally {
DBConnection.close();
}
Wrap all your database calls inside that and it will take care of closing whether there is an exception thrown or not.
Of course, this isn't much different than having a regular class, which I might recommend:
try {
DBConnection conn = new DBConnection();
conn.open();
... all the code to use the database (but you pass 'conn' around) ...
} finally {
conn.close();
}
And you might want to look at the java.lang.AutoCloseable and java.io.Closeable to see if that helps you.
2
If you are keeping it open across page loads, there isn't any place to put the try ... finally stuff so you can open it and close it when the servlet closes or the server closes or something like that.
If you are going to leave it open, you need to make sure and add code to verify it doesn't close when you aren't looking. A short network glitch, for example, could close it down. In that case, you need to reopen it when it gets closed. Otherwise, all database access from that point will fail.
You might want to look into the concept of a DataBase Pool. Apache has one -- DBCP. Tomcat has its own that's quite good. Other containers, like JBOSS, WebSphere, WebLogic all have them. There's a couple that can be used with the Spring Framework. What it does is manage one or more database connections. Your code asks it for one and it returns an open one, unless none is available and then it opens one and returns it. You call close when your code gets through with it but it doesn't really close the connection, it just returns it to the pool.
You can usually configure the pool to check for shut down connections and reopen if needed.

Java Postgres connection limit exceeded

I am using Java 1.7 and Postgres via the Postgres JDBC drivers. The database connection will be used from a Web Service. In testing, I got the following error:
FATAL: connection limit exceeded for non-superusers
I solved the error by making my connection static, and, only creating once. My question is, is a static connection safe? Is this the right way to do this?
I am using the connection via a ConnectionFactory that looks something like this:
public class ConnectionFactory
{
String driverClassName = "org.postgresql.Driver";
String connectionUrl = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/dbName";
String dbUser = "user";
String dbPwd = "password";
private static ConnectionFactory connectionFactory = null;
private static Connection conn = null;
private ConnectionFactory()
{
try
{
Class.forName(driverClassName);
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException
{
if (conn == null)
{
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl, dbUser, dbPwd);
}
return conn;
}
public static ConnectionFactory getInstance()
{
if (connectionFactory == null)
{
connectionFactory = new ConnectionFactory();
}
return connectionFactory;
}
}

Postgres JDBC driver is documented as thread safe and the connection can be used by multiple threads if so required. If a thread attempts to use the connection while another one is using it, it will wait until the other thread has finished its current operation.
Connection pooling may be used anyway for performance reasons.

Sorry, original post didn't look at your code carefully. Wow. I still can't read. Anyway, third time's the charm. If your code is single threaded - then your fine. If it's multi-threaded, use something like the Commons connection pools to manage your connections. It looks like the driver is thread safe but the connection shouldn't be viewed as thread safe. So, once the driver is loaded you can safely call getConnection on the driver from multiple threads, but the connection shouldn't be shared across threads.

Am I closing this Oracle pooled connection correctly?

I am attempting to use a pooled connection for my web application in Java. I am using an Oracle database and here is my code:
public class DatabaseHandler
{
static private Connection m_database = null;
static private OracleConnectionPoolDataSource pooledSource = null;
/**
* Attempts to open an Oracle database located at the specified serverName and port.
* #param serverName Address of the server.
* #param portNumber Port to connect to.
* #param sid SID of the server.
* #param userName Username to login with.
* #param password Password to login with.
* #throws WebApplicationException with response code 500 Internal Server Error.
*/
static public void openDatabase(String userName, String password,String serverName,int portNumber, String sid)
throws WebApplicationException
{
try
{
// Load the JDBC driver
String driverName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
Class.forName(driverName);
// Create a connection to the database
String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:#" + serverName + ":" + portNumber + ":" + sid;
pooledSource = new OracleConnectionPoolDataSource();
pooledSource.setUser(userName);
pooledSource.setURL(url);
pooledSource.setPassword(password);
m_database = pooledSource.getConnection();
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
{
// Could not find the database driver
throw new WebApplicationException(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
}
catch (SQLException e)
{
// Could not connect to the database
throw new WebApplicationException(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
}
}
/**
* Attempts to execute the specified SQL query.
* #throws WebApplicationException with a response code of Bad Request
* if the query is invalid SQL.
*/
static public ResultSet makeQuery(String query) throws WebApplicationException
{
ResultSet rs = null;
if (m_database != null)
{
try
{
Statement stmt = m_database.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
}
catch (SQLException e)
{
// invalid query
System.out.println(query);
throw new WebApplicationException(Response.Status.BAD_REQUEST);
}
}
return rs;
}
/**
* Attempts to close the database.
* #throws WebApplicationException with a response code of 500 Server error
*/
static public void closeDatbase() throws WebApplicationException
{
try
{
m_database.close();
pooledSource.close();
}
catch(SQLException e)
{
throw new WebApplicationException(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
}
}
}
I am doing this in Eclipse and I have a warning that pooledSource.close() is deprecated. I have never used a pooled connection before and I just want to be sure that I am doing everything correctly. Is there a better way to close an Oracle pooled resource?

A deprecated method means that this method shouldn't be used. In future releases, the close() method can be purged entirely. I suggest removing pooledSource.close().
Also, I would suggest not to have a static instance of a Connection and DataSource as you require a connection on request and not keep it alive throughout the application. Always close a ResultSet first and then a Connection and guarantee the closure by adding them in a finally block.

The connection must be closed to be returned to the pool.
Always close your connection in a finally-block.
Never hold connection references as a class member - this is error prone and bad design. Connections should be aquired as late as possible and released as soon as possible. It does not make sense to hold something like that as class member.
Close connections where they are used. Your code is error prone again here. If you forget to call closeDatabase() you're leaking connections.
Attention:
Do not jumble closing the connection and closing the connection pool here.
Because it was requested here's some code for correct and good connection handling:
public void doSomethingWithDb(Connection con, ...) {
boolean release = (con == null);
try {
con = PersistenceUtils.getConnection(con); //static helper return a new conenction from pool when provided con==null otherwise simply returns the given con
//do something
if(release) {
con.commit();
}
}
catch(SQLException e) {
//handle errors, i.e. calling con.rollback() but be sure to check for con!=null before. Again maybe null-safe static helper method here.
}
finally {
if(release && con!=null){
con.close();
}
}
}
I am using Connection as method parameter in order to be able to call many of such methods in one db transaction. But you can always put null as first argument for Connection and the method get a connection from pool for you.
When you call another "DB-Method" inside a "DB-Method" you just provide your connection to the underlying method - so you have everything in one transaction then.
As you see correct JDBC code produces much boilerplate code. In the first step you can reduce it by implementing a Utility-Class like PersistenceUtils which provides static null-safe methods like commit(Connection), rollback(Connection), getConnection(Connection), close(Connection) ...
With that you get rid of all null-checks and you can include logging or something else there, too.